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Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates
without a Geographic Information System*
Alison M. Eyth, Kimberly Hanisak
Carolina Environmental Program
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
October 28, 2003
*This material was originally presented at the Emission Inventory conference in San Diego, CA on May 1, 2003
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Multimedia Integrated Modeling System (MIMS)
Program sponsored by EPA Office of Research and Development
Successor to Models-3 Computer Framework Components:
– Java-based computer framework for running multimedia (and other complex) models
– Spatial allocator, Analysis engine, etc.– Framework contains tool for designing/visualizing air
quality model grids (also developed by MCNC) Free to users
– mostly open source components, but uses some proprietary (but free) libraries
http://www.epa.gov/asmdnerl/mims
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
MIMS Spatial Allocator Initially developed at MCNC
– Most of MCNC EMC is now at UNC Chapel Hill– New version provided in March with
optimizations, new features, and bug fixes– Additional changes provided in October
Operating modes:– Generates spatial surrogates that can be input
to SMOKE– Change map projection of Shapefiles– Performs other types of spatial allocation • Aggregate county data to state data• Convert between county data and gridded
data
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Benefits of Spatial Allocator
Zero cost makes surrogate generation accessible to more people
Focused purpose of software makes it easier to use to create surrogates than a GIS
Runs on UNIX and Windows Input data in commonly used ESRI Shapefile
format Output Surrogates
– Computed for regular grid (but could support adaptive grids)– Written in SMOKE format (but other formats could be added)– Supported map projections include Universal Transverse
Mercator (UTM), Lambert Conformal, and Latitude-Longitude
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
What are Spatial Surrogates? Used to map county level emission inventory data
into the rectangular grid cells used by air quality models – For example, dry cleaning emissions values may be available
for a county, but CMAQ requires them by grid cell
Surrogate value is the fraction of the emissions for a county that should be apportioned to a grid cell
emis(GC) = srg(Cty,GC) * emis(Cty) Surrogates allow for more spatial accuracy in
emissions distribution than assuming a uniform spread over the county– E.g. Applying a population surrogate causes higher levels
emissions to be placed in the grid cells that cover more densely populated parts of the county
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Computing Spatial Surrogates
Surrogates are computed using a fraction Numerator = the value of a weight attribute in the area
of intersection between the grid cell and county Denominator = the value of a weight attribute in the
entire county Sum of surrogates values for each county within the
grid should be 1 Weight attributes can be based on objects that are
points, lines, or polygons (e.g. port berths, railroads, population)
Sometimes use number of points, length, or area for weight
srg C ty GCW t C ty GC
W t C ty( , )
( )
( )
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Overall Surrogate equation
W t C ty GC W t wparea wp C ty GC
area wpwp
( ) ( ) *( )
( )
W t cty W t wp
area wp C ty
area wpwp
( ) ( ) *( )
Where Wt(x) = value of weight attribute for x, Cty = County, GC = grid cell, wp = weight polygon
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Impact of Weight Attribute on Surrogate Values
Grid Cell # Ports in gc i, cty C
# Berths in gc i, cty C
Surrogate wt=Count
Surrogate wt=Berths
1 0 0 0 0
2 1 6 1 / 4 = 0.25 6 / 12 = 0.5
3 2 6 2 / 4 = 0.5 6 / 12 = 0.5
4 1 0 1 / 4 = 0.25 0
Total 4 12 1 1
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Using the GRIDDESC File to Specify the Output Grid
! coords ‑‑line: name; type, P‑alpha, P‑beta, P‑gamma, xcent, ycent'LAT_LON'1, 0.0D0, 0.0D0, 0.0D0, 0.0D0, 0.0D0'UTM_10'5, 10.0D0, 0.0D0, 0.0D0, 0.0D0, 0.0D0'LAM_40N105W'2, 30.0D0, 60.D0,‑105.D0,‑105.D0, 40.D0' ' ! end coords. Grid name;xorig,yorig,xcell,ycell,ncols,nrows,nthik'EPAW36_56X78''LAT_LON' , ‑127.0D0, 26.0D0, 0.5000D0, 0.33333D0, 56, 78, 1'NEW_YORK''UTM_18', 480.0D3, 4440.0D3, 5.0D3, 5.0D3, 58, 46, 1''DENVER8_34X45''LAM_40N105W', ‑116.D3, ‑188.D3, 8.D3, 8.D3, 34, 45, 1
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Visualizing Grids with MIMS Grid Family GUI
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Example Windows .bat for Ports Surrogateset MIMS_PROCESSING=SURROGATEset POLY_OUT_TYPE=RegularGridset DATA=C:\surrogates\inputsset GRIDDESC=%DATA%\GRIDDESC.txtset GRID=M_08_99NASH
set POLY_DATA_TYPE=ShapeFileset POLY_DATA=%DATA%\cnty_tnset ATTR_DATA_ID=FIPS_CODEset POLY_WEIGHT_TYPE=ShapeFileset POLY_WEIGHT=%DATA%\tn_portsset ATTR_WEIGHT=BERTHSset CATEGORY_WEIGHT=4
set SURROGATE_FILE=C:\surrogates\output\srg_ports.%GRID%.txtC:\surrogates\bin\mims_spatial.exe
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Quality Assurance Options for Surrogates
OUTPUT_SRG_NUMERATOR: writes surrogate numerator as a comment in output file
OUTPUT_SRG_DENOMINATOR: writes surrogate denominator as a comment in output file
MIMS_QASUM: writes a running sum of the surrogate values for each county in output file (should sum to 1)
POLY_OUT_NAME: creates a shape file (and .csv file) that contain sums of the surrogate numerators for each grid cell (gridded version of weight attribute
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Excerpt of Surrogate Output with Quality Assurance Options On
Cat County Col Row Srg value Numerator Denominator QA Sum 4 47011 44 20 1 ! 8 8 1 4 47037 19 28 0.2 ! 2 10 0.2 4 47037 20 27 0.3 ! 3 10 0.5 4 47037 20 28 0.3 ! 3 10 0.8 4 47037 21 29 0.2 ! 2 10 1 4 47039 6 18 1 ! 3 3 1 5 47027 32 34 0.491036 ! 12917.80 26307.3 0.49104 5 47027 32 35 0.005787 ! 152.24 26307.3 0.49682 5 47027 33 35 0.338548 ! 8906.28 26307.3 0.83537 5 47027 33 36 0.164629 ! 4330.96 26307.3 1
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
GIST Visualization of Airport Surrogate (Weight = Count)
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
GIST Visualization of Port Surrogate (Weight = Berths)
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Specifying Map Projections and Ellipsoids
PROJ.4 library is used (http://www.remotesensiong.org/proj)
Supports most map projections Lambert conformal example:
setenv DATA_POLY_MAP_PRJN "+proj=lcc,+lat_1=33,+lat_2=45,+lat_0=40,+lon_0=‑97“
UTM example: setenv WEIGHT_POLY_MAP_PRJN "+proj=utm,+zone=17“
Ellipsoid examples:– setenv WEIGHT_POLY_ELLIPSOID=+GRS80 – setenv WEIGHT_POLY_ELLIPSOID=+a=6378137.0,+rf=298.2572
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Converting the Map Projection of Shapefiles
#!/bin/csh -fsetenv MIMS_PROCESSING CONVERT_SHAPEsetenv POLY_DATA_TYPE ShapeFile setenv POLY_DATA $argv[1] # no extensionsetenv POLY_OUT_TYPE ShapeFilesetenv POLY_OUT_NAME $argv[2] # no extension
setenv DATA_POLY_MAP_PRJN "+proj=lcc,+lat_1=33,+lat_2=45,+lat_0=40,+lon_0=‑97"
setenv DATA_POLY_ELLIPSOID +WGS84setenv OUTPUT_POLY_MAP_PRJN LATLON setenv OUTPUT_POLY_ELLIPSOID SPHERE/apps/mims_spatial/bin/mims_spatial.exe
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Software Implementation Software is written in C Blocks of code to perform specific tasks that are
reused for different operating modes– First read data (then weight) polygons & convert map
projection to output projection– Next compute intersection of weight and data polygons
(then of weight-data polygons with grid polygons)– Then compute surrogates
• Numerator = sum of weight for each county and gc• Denominator = sum of weight for each county
Public domain libraries used– PROJ.4 for map projection conversions– Shapelib for reading / writing shapefiles– Generic Polygon Clipper for polygon intersection
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Limitations
Currently only SMOKE-ready output Output assumed to be on sphere Line-based inputs must be “dissolved” at the
county boundaries
Carolina Environmental Program UNC Chapel Hill
The MIMS Spatial Allocator: A Tool for Generating Emission Surrogates without a GIS
Future Directions
Produce biogenic inputs for SMOKE Easier conversion between county and gridded
data Generalize spatial allocation to support more
forms of regridding Create surrogates for adaptive and other non-
regular grids Further reduce memory usage to support use of
larger data sets (~ 1 GB)